Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-07-10

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4 In Bzlletin No. Is. last recesvesa from
Ene Mia1ouri AgriCalEurs Callage. Prod
raleorn presents very inteTessing TAP
9iated results o. recent experiments u
determine The maintenance rAtion f5i
plga- The results eosneide perfectly
with The teachings 81 Mr.. fheodorr
Louis and other advanced swine grow.
ers, a. given IN The Farmer from time
20 time during the past few months.
Professor eauboru reviews the points
fnade N this bulletin In the following
I manner
l. MsinfeSance ration i a variable
Amounx. determined by ags 0f animals
( and surrounding conditions, ard rang
e. above and below ? Per cent Of I've
weight daily. but, under farorahie con
cf1ions, may Be materially under per
cent Of 1--we weight daily for q f29-Ih.
shote.
.. The food Of growth Is less than
maintenance food, and varies from I As
lbs. % over lbs. This fact requires
that the days maintenance food given
should be made a. short as coed Iced
ing viii allow. II we d0ubie the time
needed 70 grow q shose, we use about
three-fourths Of the food given for
maintenance, while, on the osher hand,
bat little over one half Of the food
goes for maintenance. With mid
dhngs at SIS ton, the best meal feed,
BY the tables, seven months lost time
IN marketing, costs in maintenance
1913 per cent. Of the sale value OF the
sh0fe.
;. The more food given up to little
over pound growth per day, the more
economical the growth-while excess
i've growth may not be so economical
as the growth Just stated.
L. The growth per day increases with
age mp 70 al least $50 to DO lbs.
). The cheapest growth Is made on
young animals, gradually increasing
with size until the maturing period
sets In, when the increase OF cost Is
rapid.
5. Skim milk and meals are the most
effective rations fed. Middlings Is the
best single food: cobmeal, fine ground,
Is an efficient food. and equal 10 clear
corn meal.
Z. For 56 pounds Of food, IA pounds
OF growth was got up 20 40 pounds Of
live weight for average Of all the trials. /
This growth, AZ four cents q pound. |
gives s. cents for the weight Of lood in |
a buahel of corn; middlings gave 15.3 I
lbs. growth for IS lbs, or IA lbs. for |
100 lbs, which, at cents, gives 81 90 |
for the 100 lbs. Of middlings.
These arevery important deduc tens, /
and show, what we have frequently 4
commended, that the Northwest, Beyond 1
the corn belt proper, may yet become /
the great swine breeding center Of the
country. The professor remarks that /
there Is 4 high degree OF pressure In /
feeding that don I pay, and this, he Is /
confident, Is true of the enormous /
amounts Of corn fed in Missouri, and,
be might have added, In Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska, etc. Better, !" he well saws,
- a continuously good growth and no
examining periods"
The conclusion arrived at by Prof. /
Sanborn, that shoteS under $50 lbs. in |
weight will make growth cheaper than
those from $50 lbs. upward, Is an i'm
portant one. Yet we doubt II most
swine feeders recognize ii as a fact.
so strong are Prof. Sanborn's convic-
lions on this point that he asserts that
I would be for the good Of the farmers
u his State il almost every shote over
eight or nine months old we're banished.
His tables show that 4 3S0-lb. hog re-
Iuires nearly twice as much food for q
pound of gain as does the 50-lb. pig.
He says:
" We hear much said about l0pounds
II pork for q bushel OF corn being q
standard for good farmers to reach.
rhe average growth from the little pig
% go pounds, as large a weight as we
,hould aim tor, by these tables is
lound for I.33 pounds of feed on Ais
ler cent. OF live weight eaten daily.
II we stop feeding Mt 200 pounds, or the
,pring pig sold in the fall, the true way,
lnly 500 pounds OF feed are required
or j pound Of growth. or for 50 pounds
Il feed IL pounds OF growth Is gained.
But IL must be remembered that this
) the average Of nearly 100 weighing
periods, on all sorts of feed, tried not
or rapid growth, but for test OF one
God against another, TO ascertain their
relative value. In these feeds are
ound bran, cotton seed meal, clear
,ob meal, etc. In short, a skillful
armer ought to easily do as well or
better than the tests reveal. Yet the
farmers fall far below Il pounds growth
II hogs for s. pounds OF feed. ! am
sure that I can do better in farm prac-
ice than did by these trials.
Now, il a shote Is kept II months, or
twice seven months, the maintenance
iood, at per cent. daily, would be Joi
pounds for the extra seven months
lselessly fed; or, in other words,
rations are greater than
the food of growth; and those Of Us,
which Is about all Of US, who feed IL
actually throw away mere
iced in unnecessary maintenance than
the actual food Of growth by 44.4
per cent.-li8.4 the amount actually
needed. 4"